Guest guest Posted September 2, 2003 Report Share Posted September 2, 2003 " Alon Marcus " <alonmarcus@w...> wrote: If blood lipids is a kind of phlegm than i have less phlegm. I've never heard of blood lipids being phlegm. Phlegm is phlegm, no? Substantial and non-substantial of course. Attilio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2003 Report Share Posted September 2, 2003 All fats can be considered " phlegm " . Robert Chu, L.Ac., QME chusauli See my webpages at: http://www.chusaulei.com > " " <attiliodalberto >Chinese Medicine >Chinese Medicine >Re: Atkins diet - phlegm >Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:14:09 -0000 > > " Alon Marcus " <alonmarcus@w...> wrote: > >If blood lipids is a kind of phlegm than i have less phlegm. > >I've never heard of blood lipids being phlegm. Phlegm is phlegm, no? >Substantial and non-substantial of course. > >Attilio > > > > >For practitioners, students and those interested in TCM. > >Membership requires that you do not post any commerical, religious, spam >messages or flame another member. > >If you want to change the way you receive email message, i.e. individually, >daily digest or none, then visit the groups’ homepage: >Chinese Medicine/ Click ‘edit my >membership' on the right hand side and adjust accordingly. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2003 Report Share Posted September 2, 2003 I've never heard of blood lipids being phlegm. Phlegm is phlegm, no? Substantial and non-substantial of course. >>>>That correlation has been around TCM since the early 1970s. Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2003 Report Share Posted September 2, 2003 I've never heard of blood lipids being phlegm. Phlegm is phlegm, no? But the ancient chinese had no way of measuring blood lipids, so they never would associate it would they? Certainly as I did my research it seemed many of the conditions associated with raised blood lipids, like insulin resistance and hypothyroidism, can be associated with phlegm. It made sense to me as any kind of 'metabolic gunking up of the works'. I understand phlegm is congealed damp, but I don't know if any of the herbs for phlegm are diuretic like the herbs for damp? Does Fu Ling for instance have other metabolic properties? I was told excess fat 'was damp' - but we know adipose tissue is not the same as oedema, even though they may both be present in several conditions. Surely there is phlegm and damp, lipid and oedema? Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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